Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Kosovo Serbs ask to join status talks team

[Announcer] Minority representatives in Kosova [Kosovo] have expressed their dissatisfaction with the composition of the negotiating team appointed by President Ibrahim Rugova. They underline the fact that this is an exclusively Albanian team. The head of the Serb list for Kosova, Oliver Ivanovic, has announced that he will ask the Contact Group to enable Kosovo Serbs to be a third party in the status talks.

[Reporter Xhemajl Rexha] Representatives of the minorities in Kosova feel they were outwitted following the appointment of the negotiating team for the status talks by President Ibrahim Rugova. The representative of the Serb list for Kosova, Oliver Ivanovic, told KohaVision that they have been neglected.

[Oliver Ivanovic on the phone in Serbian with Albanian voice-over] We are faced with a situation where we need to act quickly. It is clear that President Rugova and the Albanian leadership do not want the Serbs to be part of the Prishtina [Pristina] delegation. Therefore the Serbs should maintain their position and present themselves as a third party in the talks. This should include representatives of the Serb list for Kosova as well as other Kosova Serb representatives.

[Reporter] Ivanovic said that he would submit this request to the Contact Group in the hope that they would take it into consideration. Member of the Assembly presidency and the parliamentary group 6+, Xhezair Murati, supports the initiative in principal but is unhappy with the exclusion of minorities from the delegation.

[Xhezair Murati in Serbian with Albanian voice-over] We disagree with the negotiating team on status because there are no representatives of other ethnic groups who consider Kosova to be their home.

[Reporter] Their request will be submitted during the first meeting of the assembly presidency. President Rugova made public the composition of the negotiating team which he will head himself. The members of the team are Kosova Speaker Nexhat Daci, Premier Bajram Kosumi, opposition leaders Hashim Thaci from the PDK and Veton Surroi from Ora. Blerim Shala, a publicist, will be the coordinator of the working groups for status talks.

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Chronology of the KLA's Terrorism 1996-98 Before "Yugoslav Represion" on Kosovo)

1996April 22: Blagoje Okulic, a Serb refugee from Croatia, was sitting witha friend in a cafe when a masked member of the KLA opened fireon the customers with an automatic weapon. Okulic died inhospital. He was the first victim of the KLA.

Armand Daci (20), an ethnic Albanian student in dentistryschool, was shot and killed by a sniper.

June 16: In an attack against a police patrol near Podujevo, policeofficer Goran Mitrovic was heavily wounded.

June 17: Around 11:55 p.m. a police patrol in the village of Sipljenear Kosovska Mitrovica was attacked, resulting in the killingof Predrag Djordjevic (28) from Krusevac, and the wounding ofZoran Vukocic (30) from Nis.

The same day a bomb was hurled at the police station in Luzani,and the police officers on duty in the station were fired on byautomatic weapons. No one was injured.

July 11: One hour after midnight in the center of Podujevo terroristscarried out an armed attack against police officers, resultingin a heavy wounding of police officer Sredoje Radojevic.

Aug. 2: Armed attack on three police stations (in Pristina, Podujevo,and the village of Krpimej) around 10 p.m.

Aug. 28: Three bombs were hurled in the village of Celopek (border of thetowns Pec-Klina-Decani), around 3 a.m. No one was injured.

In the village of Donje Ljupce police inspector Ejup Bajgora (44),an ethnic Albanian who worked at the Pristina Precinct,was shot and killed.

Aug. 31: In the night hours two bombs were hurled into the courtyardof the Yugoslav Army's barracks in Vucitrn.

In the village of Rudnik (Srbica municipality) an armed attackwas carried out on the police station.

In Podujevo, police officers at the juncture of the roadPristina-Podujevo-Kursumlija were fired on. No one was hit.

The police station in Glogovac was fired on with automatic weapons.

Oct. 25: Two police officers were killed by automatic weapons near thevillage of Surkis in the Podujevo municipality -- Milos Nikolic,a police inspector of the Pristina Precinct, and Dragan Rakicfrom the village of Velika Reka, who was a police officer in thereserves and a manager of a company in Podujevo.

Nov. 16: In the village of Rznic, in Decan municipality, around 10:30 p.m.a terrorist attack was carried out on the police station. No onewas killed.

Dec. 26: Faik Belopolja, an ethnic Albanian from Podujevo who was aforest worker in the Serbia Forest Service, was shot and killed.

1997Jan. 9: In the center of Podujevo at 5:30 p.m. Malic Saholi (52), anethnic Albanian who was the manager of the superamarket "Vocar"and a deputy in the municipal council of Podujevo as a member ofthe Socialist Party of Serbia, was shot and killed.

Jan. 11: In the Vucitrn village of Mijalic, around 7 p.m. more than26 bullets were fired at the house of Ljubisa Mitrovic. No onewas killed.

Jan. 13: Shooting Fazil Hasani, an ethnic Albanian forest worker from thevillage of Brabonic (Srbica municipality) in the neck, KLOterrorists killed him and issued a statement denouncingMr. Hasani as a "traitor".

Jan. 16: Using remote-controlled explosives, the KLO attempted toassassinate the Dean of Pristina University, Mr. Papovic,at 8 a.m. as he was driving to the University. Both he andhis driver Nikola Lalic were heavily wounded. The explosiveswere set off when their car was some 50 meters from Dean Papovic'sapartment in Pristina.

Jan. 17: In the village of Reketnica (Srbica municipality), at 1 a.m.,ethnic Albanian Zen Durmisi (52) was shot and killed and hisson Nazmi Durmisi was heavily wounded. The Durmisi family waslabeled "pro-Yugoslav" by the terrorist KLA.

Feb. 1: KLA terrorists from a moving vehicle fired on police officers.The officers fired back and killed all three terrorists.

March 5: At 10:47 a.m., in front of the Pristina University School ofLanguages, a bomb in a container exploded. Four people werewounded, two ethnic Albanians -- Adrijana Dremka and LinditaMaksuti -- and two ethnic Serbs, Borivoje Popovic and IvanMaksimovic.

A second explosives device weighing 4.2 kilograms, which hadbeen placed at the base of the Vuk Karadzic monument in front ofthe School of Languages, was found and deactivated bymembers of the Anti-Ballistics Unit of the Pristina Precinct.

March 21: Around 8 p.m., in the center of Podujevo, KLA terrorists firedfive shots at police officer Branislav Milovanovic, woundinghim heavily. In a statement, the KLA claimed responsibilitydenouncing officer Milovanovic as a "Serbian policeman, wellknown blood-sucker and anti-Albanian".

March 25: Near the village Sicevo, Klin municipality, a group of attackerskilled ethnic Albanians Jusuf Haljiljaj and Fehmi Haziraj (whowere well known as loyal citizens of Serbia) and woundedethnic Albanian Mehmet Gasi.

April 10: In the village of Banjica near Glogovac, using automaticfirearms, KLA terrorists killed ethnic Albanian Ramiz Ljeka,who worked at the Glogovac Municipal Council.

May 6: Around 10:30 p.m. in the village of Lozica near Klina, ethnicAlbanian Hetem Dobruna (30), a farmer from the village, wasshot and killed.

June 19: On the Pristina-Podujevo-Nis road near the village of Donje Ljupcein the Podujevo municipality, terrorists fired 12 bulletsfrom automatic weapons at a police patrol. No one was injured.

July 3: In the village of Trstenik, Glogovac municipality, in the earlymorning hours the KLA shot and killed ethnic Albanian Ali Calapek,a farmer who was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia and amember of the local Election Commission in the 1996 elections.

July 21: The Assistant District Attorney in Pec, Miroljub Petrovic, wasshot and killed.

Aug. 3: A police vehicle was fired on at 7 p.m., in the village ofBradis which is 10 kilometers from Podujevo.

Aug. 4: At 9:30 a.m., on the road from the village of Rudnik to Srbica,KLO terrorists from Drenica fired on a police vehicle usingautomatic weapons. Police officers Milomir Dodic and ZoranBoskovic were heavily wounded, and a civilian who was in thecar was lightly wounded.

Aug. 23: Forest worker Sadi Morina, an ethnic Albanian, was killed inSrbica. Mr. Morina had already been receiving threats from KLOterrorists for a long time because he remained to work"in the service of Serbia".

Aug. 24: In the village of Zub near Djakovica an ethnic Albanian,Kcira Ndue (32), was shot and killed, while his brotherBekim Ndue was wounded.

The police station in the village of Rznic near Decani wassprayed with gunfire.

Sept. 2: At 10:55 p.m. Ljimon Krasnici, an ethnic Albanian denouncedby the KLA terrorists as a "traitor", was killed in his home.

Sept. 12: A dozen attacks were carried out on police stationsin the municipalities of Pec, Glogovac, Decani, and Djakovicaaround 11 p.m. No one was injured.

Sept. 13: Around 10 p.m. a hand grenade was hurled at the policestation in Luzano, near Podujevo.

Sept. 14: A hand grenade was hurled at the police station in Kijevo,near Klina.

Sept. 23: Around 11 a.m. in the vicinity of the village of Kijevo,the KLA opened fire on a motorized police patrol. MilanStanojevic, the commander of the Djakovica Precinct, was inthe vehicle. No one was injured.

Oct. 13: The police station in Calopek near Pec was attacked.

Oct. 16: Around 1:30 a.m. there was a terrorist attack on the policestation in the village of Klincina, which lies on the roadPec-Pristina. Adrijan Krasnici (25) from Vranovci near Pecdied in the ensuing gun battle.

Oct. 17: Around 1 a.m. the residential community Babaloc, located betweenDecani and Djakovica, where 120 Serbian refugee families whofled from Albania several years ago are situtated, was attacked.

Oct. 20: The OVK claimed responsibility for attacks on police stations inBabaloc, Calopek, and Klincina, as well as police patrols inGerlica near Urosevac and Balinac near Klina, about which thepublic had not been informed earlier.

Nov. 18: Around 7 p.m. in the village of Komoran near Glogovac,Camil Gasi, an ethnic Albanian deputy in the Parliament of theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia and the chairman of theMunicipal Board of the Socialist Party of Serbia for Glogovac,was wounded heavily. His driver was wounded as well.

Nov. 25: KLA terrorists held the police station in Srbica surroundedfor 15 hours.

Around 7 p.m. in Decani, and after midnight in the village ofRznic, two terrorist attacks were carried out in which policeofficer Dragic Davidovic (32) from Berane was killed, andLjubisa Ilic from Srbica, also a policeman, was heavily wounded.Bojan Trboljevac from Leposavic, Srdjan Pavlovic (26) fromZubin Potok, and Nedeljko Aksentijevic (30) from Kragujevac allsubsequently died from mortal wounds.

Dec. 4: The KLA claimed responsibility for an attack on Pristina Airport,claiming that it shot down a "Cessna 310" on Nov. 26 killing allfive people on-board.

Dec. 15: Around 1 a.m. on the road Srbica-Klina three masked KLO terroristsstopped a convoy of three cars with 16 Serbian civilian passangers.According to the civilians' testimonies, the terrorists -- whowere armed with machine-guns and hand grenades -- threatenedthem with death.

Dec. 19: Around 6 p.m. on the road Klina-Srbica, near the village ofJosanica, eight masked and heavily armed KLA terrorists stoppedthe car of the civilian Milan Sapic from Lazarevacthreatening, insulting, and searching his family and him.

Dec. 25: Two terrorist attacks were carried out shortly after 3 p.m.against police officers in the Podujevo municipality: In thevillage of Zakut a police vehicle was fired on, and in thecenter of Podujevo explosives devices were hurled at theresidential building where police officers live. There were novictims.1998Jan. 4: The KLA claimed responsibility for a series of terroristactivities in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:planting a bomb in front of the police station in Prilep,which caused no injuries but demolished five cars;attacking the police station in Kumanovo; and attackingthe Municipal Court in Gostivar on Dec. 16, '97.

Jan. 9: Shortly after 8 p.m., Djordje Belic (57) was shot and killedwith an automatic weapon at the doorstep of his house in thevillage of Stepanica near Kijevo. Belic was the head of one ofthe three remaining Serbian households in that village.

Jan. 12: In the town of Stimlje near Urosevac, shortly after midnight onthe night of Jan. 11/12, there was an armed attack on thebuilding in which seven families of police officers reside.The shots ended up in the bedrooms of some of their apartments.Miraculously, there were no victims.

Around 8 a.m., in the vicinity of the village Gradac nearGlogovac in Drenica, forest worker Sejdi Muja, an ethnicAlbanian, was shot and killed. He and another Albanian had beenstopped by a masked and armed three-member group of KLAterrorists, and after checking his ID card established thatMuja was on their list of "traitors". They dragged him out ofthe car and shot him, leaving his body by the road. He was a"traitor" just because he worked in the Serbia Forest Service.

Jan. 13: The KLA issued a statement stating that its headquarters was inPristina. It also claimed responsibility for a series of terroristactions carried out in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:an attack on the Municipal Court in Gostovar and the policestations in Prilep and Kumanovo. It announced that it wouldexpand its actions into Montenegro.

Jan. 14: The headquarters of the Socialist Party of Serbia for Djakovicawere stoned overnight, Jan. 13/14. All windows were broken.These were greetings for the "Serbian New Year" which is markedon Jan. 14.

Jan. 19: In Srbica all graves at the Serbian Orthodox Cemetary weredesecrated and vandalized. The monuments at the graves werecompletely destroyed.

Jan. 22: After a KLA patrol had been stopping, harassing, and threateningcitizens with death in the Srbica municipality the previous night,there was a confrontation between that patrol and a patrol ofpolice officers. While chasing the KLA terrorists, who barricadedthemselves in the house of Saban Jasari in the village ofDonji Prekaz near Srbica, police officers killed the terroristHasan Mandzol and lightly wounded two Jasari brothers.

A three-member KLA group kidnapped the taxi driver Metus Skodru,an ethnic Albanian, and then took his cab, an Audi 90. They toldhim he could buy his cab back if he showed up at a designatedplace at a designated time, under the threat that he would bekilled if he called the police.

Jan. 23: On the night of Jan. 22/23, on the road Srbica-Klina near thevillage of Josanica, Desimir Vasic, a deputy in the MunicipalAssembly of Zvecan was shot and killed.

On the same road, the same night, near the village LausaBlagoje Nikolivc from the village of Drsnik near Klina wasseverely beaten until he became unconscious.

During the same night, KLA terrorists stopped, harassed, andthreatened with death a group of Serbian women heading toMonastery Devic.

Jan. 25: On the night of Jan. 24/25, in the town of Malisevo, in thevery center KLA terrorists heavily wounded two police officers.

During the same night, KLA terrorists attacked the house of theDjuricic family in the village of Grabanica, near Klina in Drenica.

Terrorists hurled a bomb at the house of a police officer inUrosevac.

Jan. 26: In the vicinity of the village of Turicevac, which is locatedbetween Klina and Srbica, KLA terrorists opened fire usingautomatic weapons on a helicopter belonging to Serbia'sMinistry of Internal Affairs.

Jan. 27: Again in the vicinity of Turicevac, an armed terrorist groupstopped Veroslav Vukojcic from Leposavic and his neighborsRadmila and Zvezdana Vukajlovic. They beat them severely. Thevictimis paid the terrorists to let them go -- Vukojvcic paid500 German marks, and Vukajlovic paid 850 marks.

Jan. 28: A police patrol which was on its way to Decani to confiscateillegal weapons from the family Tahirsuljaja fell into atrap and was greeted with heavy gunfire from several houses.Nevertheless, the officers managed to arrest seven members ofthe Tahirsuljaja clan.

That evening, KLA terrorists fired at the house ofDragoljub Spasic in the village of Sibovac near Obilic.

Feb. 10: A group of KLA terrorists appeared at a fundraising event forthe KLA in New York City. They received funding from over 150Albanians attending the event. On that occasion, the KLAterrorists proclaimed that they had killed 50 Serbian policeofficers and "corrupt" Albanians in 1997.

Feb. 12: In Gornji Obrinj, in front of the village convenience store,Mustafa Kurtaj, an ethnic Albanian who worked at the postoffice in Glogovac, was shot and killed. He was shot inbroad daylight, in front of twenty onlookers, as a warningto others. Prior to this, he had been repeatedly warned byKLA terrorists that they would kill him unless he quit hisjob at the state-run post office.

Feb. 15: Nik Abdulahu, an ethnic Albanian employee of the Serbia ElectricUtility, was shot and killed while at work, at the electricitysubstation in the village of Staro Cikatovo near Glogovac.

Feb. 18: In the night between Feb. 17/18, KLA terrorists collectedfirearms from ethnic Albanians in Drenica, for whom theysuspected that they did not support their cause. Those who didnot turn over their weapons were given a deadline to do so,"othewise," they were told, "you will be shot".

The police checkpoint near the village Dobre Vode in theKlina municipality was attacked with automatic weapons.

Feb. 19: While returning from work, an employee of the state securityservice of Pristina Nebojsa Cvejic was shot and killed near thevillage of Luzani.

Feb. 20: On the road Srbica-Klina, near the village of Lausi, KLAterrorists shot and killed Milorad Ristic, a privateentrepreneur from Djakovica, and heavily wounded truck driverZdravko Djuricic from Orahovac.

On the same day, on the same road, near the village of JosanicaKLA terrorists opened fire on another truck, which was beingdriven by an ethnic Serb. However, an ethnic Albanian hitchhikerfrom the village of Lausi, who was sitting in the passenger seatand whom the driver had picked up in Klina, was killed by theKLA terrorists' gunfire.

That evening, on the road Klina-Djakovica, KLA terrorists set upa roadblock where they beat up police officer Milenko Kandic.

Feb. 22: Ali Raci, an ethnic Albanian working at a Serbian-ownedagriculture company, was shot and killed in the village ofDobre Vode at the entrance of the agriculture company. He hadrefused to give in to the KLA's earlier warnings and blackmailthat he quit his job.

Feb. 26: Using hand grenades and automatic weapons, terrorists attackedSerbian refugees from Albania housed in the refugee camp Babaloc(located on the road Decani-Djakovica) for the third time.

Feb. 27: KLA terrorists attacked the houses in Srbica where Serbianrefugees from Croatia are temporarily housed.

At Monastery Devic, KLA terrorists harassed the head nun for30 minutes. They ordered her to tell the police that they willall be killed.

A KLA warehouse containing 12 kilograms of explosives with clocks,several trunks of shells, and over 120 rocket launchers wasdiscovered in Prizren. Several terrorists were arrested.

The comments coming from Serbs explain it very well why Kosova must be independent:

"it is easier to train a jackass than an albanian"

"kosovo is a cancer for serbia, infested with rats. exept for teh "educated" poulation, i mean come on dude hahah, lets not kid ourselves"

I for myself choose independence, as far as possible from these thugs. The really sad thing is these are Serbs who are able to write/speak English, and if this is the case with people who have obviously been under the influence of non-Serb ideology, then what is the case with the rest of that county? Another Holocaust in horizon? Another Crusade/Jihad?

Why would they want to be part of the team. Belgrade team is representing them. If they want to go then the team from Belgrade should not be allowed to go. Why have two teams representing Serbs and one team representing the Albanians. If there are two teams representing Serbs then there should be a team from Albania proper representing the interests of Kkosovar Albanians.Serbs think they're smarta$$es trying to outnumber Albanians under all kind of justifications. The Serbs in Kosova should choose. Either they let Belgrade represent them or they represent themselves.

guys please forget the serb guy. he has no idea what he is talking about. some serb guy in a coffee shop surprisingly, out of the blu, gets killed, for no reason, and guess who is to blame? KLA, which didn't even exist. please dude i know the media in serbia has filled your head with so much garbage, but some guy dying for no reason in a cafeteria, when he is not the only one that was shot upon, i mean common. anyways, guys the minority serb should have the right to be represented and i am glad they finally decided to become part of kosova's future. i just hope with all my heart that that is what they really want and are aiming for. i have to say though, raising their voice now after refusing to be part in the first place just makes me wonder if they're doing it to show that they are not being supported and recognized by the albanian majority.

As far as the Serbs wanting to join the negotiating team they do have to choose. We can't have three teams involved. It is a two side discussion so it is either the Kosovar Serbs or Belgrade. Also these negotiations are just for show because the final status has already been decided. It is just a way to prepare the Serb public for reality, something their own Government has failed to do.

It's very interesting this latest request of K-Serbs, have they finally realized that Belgrade won't represent their issues and rights like K-Serb minister has been saying for quite a while? Have they heard possible options that EU will offer Belgrade as long as it let's the issue go? K-Serbs are sandwitched between the two sides and bargaining will be on their backs: not the best prospect out there.

guys the serb minority has to be represented especially in these talks. whether we like it or not there are three parties going in these talks. kosovar serbs are not just serbs, they are kosovars first and formost. like ariani said they have to look out for themselves making sure that serbia does not screw them over for some deals that might have made with nato nations (if they have done so). i have the outmost confidence that our delegation there will represent our wishes very clearly and we have to understand these talks are not for us to show to serbia why we want independence,(if they don't know that by now, you can have all the talks you want and they still won't get it) but to show them how we see the future of kosovar serbs in kosova. after all they are a serbian minority living outside serbia and the serbian government has the obligation to make sure that their rights are protected. We have to show them we better than them guys. We can't argue that they don't deserve it because deep down inside us we know that they deserve their rights. We can't make the same mistakes the serbs did.

We are not Serbs so we will not act like them. But I will tell you this, no matter how much time passes by, no matter how good we treat them, no matter how many rights and liberties they get, a Serb will never have any love for an Albanian so do not turn your back on them because you will find a knife there in no time. Serbs are an immoral and racist people. Racism is in their phsyche. They call their "religion" the "pravoslavna religija" pravo-right or correct slava-religion or faith, suggesting that theirs is the only right religion. They belive they are a people chosen by God and that all other people are inferior to them. The Serbs are the most racist people in the world today and they will never change. I will never sleap with both my eyes closed when a Serb is near by. We have gotten burned like this too many times do not make this mistake again!

We are not Albanians so we will not act like them. But I will tell you this, no matter how much time passes by, no matter how good we treat them, no matter how many rights and liberties they get, an Albanian will never have any love for a Serb so do not turn your back on them because you will find a knife there in no time. Albanians are an immoral and racist people. Racism is in their phsyche. They call their "religion" "Albanism" suggesting that their nation is above God and His laws. They believe but cannot difinitively prove that they are the ancient people of the balkans with exclusive land rights. cannchosen by God and that all other people's history and land rights are irrelavent. The Albanians are the most racist people in the world today and they will never change. I will never sleap with both my eyes closed when a Serb is near by. We have gotten burned like this too many times do not make this mistake again!

Most of the non-Albanian people's of the Balkans know this to be the difinitive truth shamefully so.

They call their "religion" "Albanism" suggesting that their nation is above God and His laws.

You are completley missing the point of what "Albanianism" stands for. Albanianism is not a religion first of all; its what unites Albanians of every creed. It is the duty of every Albanian to leave all relgious quarrels aside and be united for the advancement of our nation.Every Albanian is free to believe whatever he/she wants. That is why we have so many religions in Albania. However every Albanian knows it is his duty to unite with his brothers of other religions because we all were born Albanians first. The religion one believes comes later in life when one is able to understand. Albanianism stands for not hating Albanians of other religions. Like for example Orthodox slavs hate muslim slavs. Albanianism stands for always helping an Albanian first no matter his/her religion rather than a foreigner who has the same religion as you. That is why we say the religion of Albanians is Albanianism. Throughout history we have had many religions starting from paganism, to Catholicism, to Orthodoxy to evangelism etc. etc. but we've never fought for religion. We put the fact that we are all born as Albanian before any religious differences. That is how we have survived Serbian colonialism among lots of other repressive regimes.

1913 - 7 ouf 9 children of my grandfathers family from Prizren expelled to Turkey. Only my grandfather and his sister remained.

1950 - My grandfather, a professor of Math and Physics, expelled from Prizren to Prishtina, because he was requesting that Albanian language has to be learned in schools for albanians, and not Turkish and Serb.A true terrorist, right?

1954 - My other grandfather, a professor of Albanian language, sent to prison for a few months, and constantly molested by the UDB for showing his sympathy and teaching Albanian students about our history.As we see, by Serb definition, he was a true terrorist as well.

1998 - In the lunch-break in my high-school, located in the centre of Prishtina, policemen enter the school and beat-up many of our high-school students, some of them my friends

1999 - serbian police forced my entire family out of our apartment, and forced us to hed for 5 days in Bllace, were we had almost no food and water at all.

Now, my serbian friends, please tell me what have my family done to you? Or, sincerely, please make a list of things that albanians generally did to you or your family?

As you can see in the chronology above, serbs keep coming back trying to make my family leave this place. Always! I hope 1999 was the last time, since if it comes to that again, be sure you're going to have at least 300,000 mobilized and armed albanians ready to die, but just not let serbian killers return to Kosova.

history of crimes in ur family? they beat up ur buddy at school! what? dude the list of what albos did to serbian familes is much much longer, that a look at the last 100 years and see who completedt eh cleanins of a land where in 1920 there was only 100,000 of u, 80 years later those 100k produced 1.5 m people!! what??? animals total animals. and dont lie ok, the albaniacs had their own schools, hospitals u even had yugslav passports written in albaniac (what other minority had that in the world?) in those times even if u were a serb in belgrade and if u expressed nationalistic tendenies u would be put in jail for being pro serb. thats how it was in the old yugo with that croat tito in charge.

i have a few things i want to say to the serb guy. dude your country, you included, has to change its ideology and be quick about it. i hope you speak from your twisted mind when you say and think that orthodoxy is better than islam. i am orthodox and i was raised to respect all religions. however, i consider i have more ties with my albanian fellows than with a serb, greek or russian for that matter. dude you can choose you friends but you cannot choose your family. the same goes for religion. the fact that you and me have the same religion is by choice, but having the same language, blood, customs and place to call home as my albanian people, dude that is just destiny. if our religion is the best please tell me where in the bible does it say that we should kill everyone that converts to another religion (in our case muslim) or anyone that gets married with muslims? dude do not use religion as a scape goat. i want to be proud when i say i am orthodox. to my albanian friends. guys history has taught us that our negighbours are not friendly. however, they are our neighbors and we have to try to make things work. cautiously and carefully we have to make them understand by explaining them, showing them or even letting them be, because sooner or later they will realize why albanians have been here for thousands of years and will still be here for millions to come.

u r n idiot, where do i say orthodox is better? where? i am talking about fanatics in any religion are nuts, if u have a society of people from kosovo to indonisia breeding like rats just to have power in numbers then i am soryy but that is breeding like animals, for an entire people like the albos in kosovo to have each family have 10-12 kids is animal like reproduction call it what it is. i mean dude evry single family is like that out of 100,000 in 1921 1.5 million are there today!! in 80 years!!!!! r u kidding me? show me 1 orthodox nation tht reproduces like that? none, but anywya this does not mean i am saying islam is worse,the sad thing for u is that u are coming up with that comclusion on your own. cherio!

Martyr, natality is the same in Kosova along all ethnic groups. If that makes us animals, then you must conclude the same for all ethnic groups residing in Kosova, inluding Kosova Serbs.Slovenians in their unconventional wisdom suggested to Serbs that they develop cities and industry in Kosova: two factors that greatly affect natality of a population, a change that has been noticed in all Western countries that have made the transition. But Serbs in their ultimate fear of losing control to Kosova from a population that would be educated and in line with other worldly ideas like deomracy and self-determiatnion (which come along with rock-n-roll and birth control) choose not to.See, if the first few decades of Serb colonialism, Albanians were not allowed to develop and natality exploded as a result. When you guys finally allowed the opening of Prishtina University and Prishtina's population boomed, it became a hub of intellecual resistance to Serb colonialism, which when coupled with villagers with hormonal imbalances kicked conlonial butt from Koshare all the way to Belgrade.

i have to agree with the previous guy. the reason why the population exploded is not because kosovars breed like animals but it is the lack of modernazition that the serbs inflicted on them. dude when there is nothing to do after 8 o'clock at night you go to bed and have sex with your wife. however, i do not think that is the point here. i can understand you are mad and believe me i would be mad too, but you have to know that this land belongs to god, we, as human beings, are just using it. NO one has exclusive rights to ownership. people come and go. some stay to the land some migrate again. you keep going back to the past. should we tell americans leave the states as well. the line has to be drawn somewhere. the present. kosova's serbs are trying to become part of everyday life in kosova. we should congratulate them. help them support them. whether we like it or not we are both here to stay. haven't we fought enough. dude before you know it, we'll be in EU. than what? no more borders. the only reason why kosovars wanted their independence was because you were not accepting them as equals. And do not give me that the best treated minority in the world crap. they were yugoslavian citizens who diserved the same rights as BiH, croatians, slovenians and macedonians.

the biggest load of crap i ever heard, u know damn well that kosovo compared to albania (where u came from) was a paradise, u were allowed to go abroad (which bit serbia in the ass years later caue that is where u made ur profits from selling drugs, pimpin whores and cleaning buildings at nite, call it what it is) a ton of $ was pumped into kosovo to no avail, u ruined it during titos time. serbian colonialism??? WHAT? HUH? wat country did the serbs colonise?? kosovo? in 1912 ther was less tahtn 100,000 albos in kosovo, the vast majority were serbs, that is a fact. when WAS KOSOVO EVER ALBANIAN???? WEHN? WHEN WAS IT EVER UNDER UR CONTROL SHOW ME. u talk nonsense dude dont try to play this "peace n love" shit when u perfectly well know that it is the albanians who are teh nazi killers in kosovo, who in 100 years were able to totally kicked out and kill all of teh serbs from teh land, again 100k people in 100 years produce 1.5m???? out of bordom??? stop ur lies please it was out of sheer numbers to take over kosovo, that i swhat ur imans have preched for years. u had ur hospitals, ur schools passports u went overseas while ur parents in albania were jealous of u n u bitch caue u want to steal more and more.

Who says Kosova had a majority of Serbs in 1912. Serb sources of course. You show me a time when you had Kosova except from comunism. Serbian history has been fabricated by your church and as such is not valid at all.Now lets go over how good it was for Kosovar Albanians during communism. How many Albanian representatives were in the federal parliament? How many Albanian ministers were in the federal government? How many Albanian colonels, generals, leutnants, majors were in the federal army? How many Albanians held directing positions in the federal institutions? The answer is NONE. Go ahead now and read why USA declared its independence from Britain. The same exact causes. What do you expect from someone who doesn't have a say whether or not to accept a tax, a law, a public official that some $hithead on Belgrade imposes on them. Why do the Kosovar Albanians have to accept this while all the other nationalities have their say in federal institutions.

Regarding the immigration you mention. It is very sad when someone has to leave his/her country because he does not have the economic resources to live there or even feed his children. This is what happened during Tito's time. I've never seen rich people immgrating because they like it. It was his policy to make the life of Albanians miserable so more and more could immigrate. This is how he envisioned to change the demographics of Kosova. The idea is the same with that of Milosevic the means are different.

My parents and I immigrated to the United States from Serbia in in the 1960's for economic reasons. We are Serbian and not albanian so don't think the albanians were the only ones who left their homes looking for work!!!!!!!As a matter of fact I believe the Serbian population in the United States is larger than the kosovo albanian population.

Serbians represented less than 10% of Kosova's population prior to 1912, it was a colonization program that increased their population to a bit over 20%, and it cost Serbia almost a quarter of its budget.